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Wolford Lodge
October 8th 1800
Dear Sir
Bonaparte it seems has given us Peace & I
among others am glad that it is attained all things considered,
to credibility; It is a Peace of necessity.
Prudence requires that we should be armed in a certain degree,
& the popular Voice as well as reason will look forward to the
preservation of a Naval superiority; that, and the Militia, the
Paladium of our internal freedom, if rigorously brought back
to its first Principles, will I presume, be our cheapest & chief
dependance against an European Enemy.
On these considerations, I confide to your perusal a Manuscript
of my late Fathers, and if you see it convenient, I wish you to state
it summarily to the Noble Earl. you must bear in Mind the Era in
which it was composed, soon after Mathews and
had shewn in the Medditerranean a different scene from what
was really displayed off St Vincent-
I know not to which Profession I am Most attached being the
Son of one and belonging to the other, but it is clear to me, "tho'
it may happen in future Wars, that no Military Man may be

Wolford Lodge
October 8th 1800
Dear Sir
Bonaparte it seems has given us Peace & I
among others am glad that it is attained all things considered,
to credibility; It is a Peace of necessity.
Prudence requires that we should be armed in a certain degree,
& the popular Voice as well as reason will look forward to the
preservation of a Naval superiority; that, and the Militia, the
Paladium of our internal freedom, if rigorously brought back
to its first Principles, will I presume, be our cheapest & chief
dependance against an European Enemy.
On these considerations, I confide to your perusal a Manuscript
of my late Fathers, and if you see it convenient, I wish you to state
it summarily to the Noble Earl. you must bear in Mind the Era in
which it was composed, soon after Mathews and
had shewn in the Medditerranean a different scene from what
was really displayed off St Vincent-
I know not to which Profession I am Most attached being the
Son of one and belonging to the other, but it is clear to me, "tho'
it may happen in future Wars, that no Military Man may be